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Robert DeNiro co-owns restaurants and Jennifer Lopez sells perfume and clothes, but the most coveted job for multihyphenate celebrities these days is something a bit less glitzy and a lot more geeky — tech entrepreneur.

Thanks in large part to the success of Ashton Kutcher, a prolific angel investor who has funded dozens of startups and plugs them to his nearly 10 million Twitter followers, stars are looking beyond Hollywood for business opportunities.

Now A-listers are leveraging their considerable celebrity clout and finances to form their own startups, launch mobile applications, fund companies or serve as creative directors to major tech brands.

To read the full, original article click on this link: Celebrities pile into tech business startups | Appleton Post Crescent | postcrescent.com